The Olympic programme had now grown to 78 events; with the return of
skeleton and the introduction of bobsleigh for women.

There was a first Winter Olympic gold medal for China and Vonetta
Flowers became the first black athlete to earn Winter gold; by coming first in the
womens bobsleigh.

In ice hockey, Jarome Iginla joined her by becoming the first black
male to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.

Biathlon

When the German women secured relay gold at the second consectutive
Winter Olympics, Ursula Disl
(who already had four silver and three bronze medals) brought her total to eight; more
medals than anyone else had won in the Olympic biathlon.

Ice Hockey

Luge

A silver medal in singles luge made Germany's Georg Hackl
the first person in Olympic history to earn a medal in the same individual event five
times in a row.

Skating

Germany's Claudia
Pechstein earned her third straight gold medal in the 5,000m speed skating event and
finished first in the 3,000m as well.

Skiing

The Mass Start event was introduced to cross-country skiing and the
Sprint event was added to the Nordic Combined.

Finland's Samppa
Lajunen earned a clean sweep in all three Nordic combined competitions.

In Alpine Skiing, Croatia's Janica
Kostelic won three gold medals and one silver; and Switzerland's Simon Ammann
took two gold medals back to the Alps, from both individual (70m and 90m) ski jump events.

Simon Ammann
surprised even the Swiss when he brought home gold medals from both ski jumping events.

Deer Valley Resort:
Deer Valley Resort was the site of the 2002 Olympic slalom, mogul and aerial events.

Park City
Mountain Resort:
Six days of Olympic events were held at Park City Mountain Resort, including the alpine
giant slalom competition, the snowboarding parallel giant slalom and the snowboarding
halfpipe.

Snowbasin Resort:
Snowbasin was the only Olympic venue where you could cheer on the athletes without an
Olympic ticket. To get good views of the Downhill and Super G slopes, you would have
needed a lift ticket though - and possibly a pair of skis.